Maestro Stefano Miceli, one of Italy's and the musical world's leading conductors and pianists presented his latest initiative "The Art of the Italian Sonata" during a four day whirl wind tour of New York, under the auspices of the Harvard Club of New York and the Italian Academy Foundation, Inc.
Maestro Miceli, who is best known as a conductor and leading pianist with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipizig Gewandhaus and the orchestras of LaScala and other major venues in the world, performed excerpts from his upcoming DVD in two concerts that supported his view of the importance of the Italian Sonata. Maestro Miceli whose recording is called The Art of the Italian Sonata, underwritten by the Italian Academy Foundation, will be issued in September of this year. Importantly, the work has been recorded on the Hamburg built Steinway & Sons piano of the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli live at the Musei Mazzucchelli in Brescia, Italy.
This stunning series which includes works of Clementi, L Cherubini, Paradisi and rare sonatas by Cimarosa, includes some discussion of the Art of the Italian Sonata, one of the seminal aspects of Italian musical history that influenced all music that followed. It will prove an excellent and seminal introduction to the topic.
According to Stefano Acunto, chairman of the Italian Academy Foundation, "The Art of the Italian Sonata is one of the most uplifting initiatives in the Academy's history and has been prized very highly by the 100 attendees at the Harvard Club concert held Friday April 27th and a salon concert held Saturday evening the 28th at the Acunto's Hudson Cliff House residence in Yonkers, New York for a delighted crowd of sixty leaders from the Italian and the musical communities. Maestro Miceli has identified works that forecast much better known works of later composers such as Beethoven and the other romantics. We believe this album will attract much greater attention to the art of lesser known composers from Italy who were very influential in their own time. We salute Maestro Miceli for his scholarship and performance excellence."